Research to Venture - Consultation with District 3
Offered by: Frederic Coulombe, Validation Program Lead Facilitator, District 3
- Format: Consultation
- Time: 30 min
- Stage: Finishing a project
- Pathway: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
- research commercialization
- startups
- product development
- entrepreneurship
- intellectual property
Your research can create impact through new products and ventures. Consider a commercial pathway for your work—and the role you want to play.
Why this
Could your research lead to a product, company, or spinoff? This consultation with District 3 helps you explore that potential, discuss early intellectual property considerations, and identify next steps, whether you’re testing an initial idea or shaping a venture.
Relevance for impact
A product or venture can be one route for research to be used beyond academia. Exploring what that route involves—including teams, funding, and first customers—can help researchers consider its relevance to their work and the role they might want to play.
Who it's for
Concordia researchers and research teams exploring commercial possibilities for their work, from an initial idea to a potential startup or spinoff
What you’ll learn / outcomes
- Whether your research could become a product, company, or venture
- What moving from discovery to a startup involves, including team needs, funding, first customers, and early intellectual property considerations
- Which roles researchers can take in a venture and what being a founder looks like day to day
- What funders and investors look for at the earliest stages
- Which District 3 program may fit your discipline and stage
Format
- 30minute online consultation
- Group size: individual researcher or a research team
- On-demand scheduling
What to bring (recommended)
- Provide details about your project and relevant lab context through District 3’s intake questionnaire.
Materials provided
- Referrals to existing resources.
Service provider
Frederic Coulombe is Validation Program Lead Facilitator at District 3 and Researcher-Founder currently building his own business, Jericho Labs.
District 3 is Concordia's Innovation Hub that incubates startups whose research and ideas come out of Concordia and Montreal. We don't take any equity from our companies and use our funding to help individuals with great ideas develop the skills and networks they need to create innovations that have a positive impact on our society.